HERE TODAY, GONE TOMORROW

Pakistan has gone from prime time to behind a pay wall for its whistle-stop second tour of Australia in 12 months

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Popular and competitive last summer, Pakistan is this summer’s warm-up for the visiting main act – its sub-continental neighbours, India. Half a dozen white ball matches, three of each format, are behind a springtime tv paywall in November. The games will be over in the blink of an eye, a fortnight before the first official week of summer. Free-to-air viewers won’t see a ‘live’ ball bowled. Pakistan being Pakistan, there are bound to be moments of soaring highs, mayhem and utter incompetence Shan Masood’s Test side with newcomer Aamir Jamal in cracking form earned plaudits downunder last summer, but their white ball teams in 2024 have often been a basket case. Four Twenty20 losses in five games in New Zealand in January and an embarrassing defeat to minnows, USA, in…

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